Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, layered butter pecan cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
The cake layers are a moist, buttery vanilla cake spotted with toasted pecans. The flavor of the cake alone is delicious. The pecans add a whole other level of awesome. Before adding them to the cake batter though, they are tossed with butter and brown sugar and toasted.
Layered Butter Pecan Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Layered Butter Pecan Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook layered butter pecan cake using 19 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Layered Butter Pecan Cake:
- Make ready 2 cups Pecans chopped
- Make ready 3 Tbsp unsalted butter diced into 3 pieces
- Make ready 3 cups all-purpose flour
- Take 2 teaspoons baking powder
- Get 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Take 1 cup softened unsalted butter
- Get 1 3/4 cup sugar
- Prepare 4 large eggs
- Take 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Take 1 teaspoon almond extract
- Get 1 cup buttermilk
- Prepare 1/2 cup whole milk
- Take Cream cheese icing
- Prepare 1 cup room temp butter
- Make ready 12 ounces room temp cream cheese
- Prepare 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Take 5 cups powdered sugar
- Get 1/2 cup chopped pecans for topping
Remove from oven and cool the pecans until cool to the touch. Watch carefully near the end to avoid burning. Cream remaining butter in large mixing bowl. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
Instructions to make Layered Butter Pecan Cake:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and line 3 9-inch round cake pans with parchment paper, butter parchment paper and lightly dust pans with flour
- Melt 3 Tbsp butter in a skillet over medium heat. Once melted add pecans and cook until slightly browned, tossing frequently, about 4 minutes. Pour and spread onto a sheet of parchment paper or a baking sheet. Set aside and allow to cool.
- Stir together buttermilk and milk, set aside.
- In a mixing bowl whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt for 20 seconds, set aside.
- In the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment whip together butter and sugar until fluffy. Mix in eggs one at a time adding in vanilla and almond extract with last egg.
- Mix in flour alternating with milk mixture: Add 1/3 of the flour mixture to the butter mixture and mix on low speed just until combined, then add in 1/2 of the buttermilk mixture and mix just until combined then repeat process once more. Finish by mixing in remaining 1/3 of the flour mixture and mix just until nearly combined.
- Fold in pecans: Remove bowl from stand mixer and fold in pecans (fold batter until there's not longer streaks in the batter). Divide batter evenly among prepared baking pans.
- Bake until set: Bake in preheated oven 23 - 28 minutes until toothpick inserted into center of cake comes out clean. Remove from oven and cool in cake pans 10 minutes.
- Let cake cool completely on wire rack: Run a knife around edges of cake to ensure the are loosened and invert onto wire racks to cool completely. Once cool frost with cream cheese frosting and top with pecans.
- For the cream cheese frosting: In the bowl of an electric stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment whip together butter and cream cheese until smooth. Mix in vanilla and powdered sugar and blend until smooth and fluffy.
Cream remaining butter in large mixing bowl. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. If your layers don't fall free, you might try gently tapping on the pan while the cake is flipped over. This will sometimes cause the layer to release and fall free. … Butter Pecan Cake Frosting: You'll need these ingredients. … While the layers are cooling, we'll go ahead and make the frosting for the cake. Cool - Set the cake aside on a wire rack until the pans are cool to the touch.
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